Alison Savage

Alison has worked at the ABC since 2008. She has worked in radio and TV news and news online before becoming the ABC's State Political reporter for radio in 2011. Before joining the ABC in the Gippsland newsroom, Alison worked as a journalist at commercial radio stations in Perth and Sydney

Victoria's regional train network will be boosted in next week's state budget, with a $257 million order for new V/Line train carriages and a new maintenance centre in Geelong which will create hundreds of jobs, the Andrews Government says.

The Victorian Government is promising to continue to lobby the Commonwealth to spend federal funds allocated for the East West Link on other transport projects in the state, a day after the contracts for the controversial tunnel are scrapped.

Ambassadors from France and Spain make an official complaint about the Victorian Government's plan to abandon contracts for the East West Link, but the state Treasurer says there are no plans to back down.

The Victorian Liberal Party is handed a scathing internal review of its performance at last year's state election, pointing to disastrous communications policies and a level of dysfunction in the former government.

The Country Fire Authority's Fiskville training centre, which was at the centre of a cancer cluster investigation, will be closed permanently after toxic chemicals were found at the site earlier this month.